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Tapirs are related to horses and rhinoceroses. There are four species of tapirs and all of them are either endangered or vulnerable. Tapirs weigh between 500 and 800 lbs (225 …to 360 kg). They can be over three and a half feet (1m10cm) tall. They live 25 to 30 years. They eat leaves and fruit and feed in the morning and evening. Tigers, jaguars, anacondas and crocodiles can all be dangerous to tapirs. Their trunk is prehensile. They are good swimmers and like to swim but can also sink and walk along the bottom of a river. (MORE)

The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian tapir, is the largest of the four species of tapir and the only one native to Asia . The Baird's tapir …lives in Mexico and Central America, and has been found in the northernmost areas of Colombia The lowland (often called Brazilian) tapir lives in the rain forests of South America The mountain tapir lives in the high cloud forests and paramos of the northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. (MORE)

It depends really. There are 4 spieces of tapirs. However, I only know 2 spieces. One of them is the Brazilian Tapir. This spieces of tapir comes from Brazil and Peru. The oth…er one is a Maylasian Tapir. This one I'm certain comes from Asia. (MORE)

Many early tapirids lived in North America. Tapirs may have originated there. It is certain that they originated in the Northern Hemisphere. For much of their history, tapirid…s lived throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The three species of South American Tapirs moved from North America to South America in the Great American Interchange, about 3 million years ago. (MORE)

Like any other organism, tapirs are made up of a staggeringly complex mix of biological building blocks the structure of which we scientists are only just beginning to underst…and. They also contain quite a lot of water. (MORE)